Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Meta just unveiled its most ambitious AI glasses lineup yet — including a brand new computing interface: Ray-Ban Displays with an internal screen and a Neural Band controller.
We sat down for an exclusive interview with Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, to explore how these glasses could replace your phone and what it means for humanity when AI can see every little thing we see.
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In our interview
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Meta unveils complete smart glasses ecosystem
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Neural Band with invisible EMG-powered controls
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Could AI glasses replace your smartphone?
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Oakley Meta Vanguards bring AI coaching to athletes
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Preserving humanity within the age of superintelligence
EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH MARK ZUCKERBERG
THE NEWS
👓 Meta unveils complete smart glasses ecosystem
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The Rundown: Meta just unveiled its most comprehensive smart glasses lineup yet at Connect, introducing three distinct products — Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2, Oakley Meta Vanguard for athletes, and the groundbreaking Meta Ray-Ban Display with neural input.
Cheung: Are you able to give us the rundown of every little thing you are announcing and what you are personally most enthusiastic about?
Zuckerberg: We announced our fall 2025 line of glasses. Ray-Ban Meta now has doubled battery life, 3K video, and AI features like conversation focus that amplify friends’ voices in loud places. The Oakley Meta Vanguard is built for athletes, water-resistant, louder speakers, Garmin connectivity.
Zuckerberg added: But essentially the most interesting thing by far is Ray-Ban Meta Display, the primary glasses we have shipped with a high-resolution display paired with the Meta Neural Band, which is the primary mainstream neural interface. You may send signals out of your brain with micro muscle movements like this [gestures subtly]. It’s a giant breakthrough.
Cheung: So you’ve got got Ray-Bans for on a regular basis, Oakleys for athletes, and displays for power users. How do all these glasses tie into that non-public superintelligence vision?
Zuckerberg: Our theory is that glasses are the perfect form factor for private superintelligence since it’s the one device that may see what you see, hear what you hear, confer with you throughout the day, and generate a UI in your vision in real time.
Why it matters: Meta is betting every little thing on glasses as the ultimate form factor for AI — solving what killed Google Glass by making wearables people actually need to wear. With the Neural Band reading muscle signals before you visibly move, users gain hands-free control for things like texting, GPS navigation, and AI interaction.
A NEW INTERFACE
🧠 Meta pioneers invisible EMG-powered controls
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The Rundown: Meta’s recent Ray-Ban Display glasses paired with the Neural Band introduce a shift in human-AI interaction — using EMG tech to detect electrical signals on the wrist, enabling users to manage interfaces through subtle gestures.
Cheung: I got to try the Ray-Ban Displays. The moment that got me was the GPS navigation. What is the feature you utilize that you think that nobody’s expecting?
Zuckerberg: Sending messages. With the glasses, a friend texts you, it shows up within the corner of your eye for just a few seconds… If you would like to respond, it’s as easy as moving your finger. I’m as much as 30 words a minute typing with neural text. You may be having a conversation and proceed to listen to the person with just a really quick gesture along with your wrist.
Cheung: The wristband reads electrical signals before you even move. Why is that more vital than simply improving voice commands or adding more buttons?
Zuckerberg: Lots of the time, you are around other people. You wish a method to control your computing device that’s private, discreet, and subtle. With the neural band, we could possibly be having this conversation, I get a message, and within the time it takes to breathe, I’ve sent a ten-word response.
Cheung: Looking ahead, typing and speaking may not be enough to interact with AI. Do you see the band as step one toward entirely recent interfaces?
Zuckerberg: The neural band goes to personalize to you over time. You may co-evolve with it to make increasingly subtle movements where it is not picking up motion, it’s picking up your muscles firing. Eventually, you may have the option to manage the UI along with your hand at your side, in a jacket pocket, behind your back.
Why it matters: Meta’s Neural Band is the primary consumer neural interface that detects muscle signals before visible movement, a brand new method to interact with tech (and should eventually make keyboards/screens feel ancient). While it takes time to learn, the band personalizes to your unique patterns over time — becoming smarter and easier to make use of.
THE NEXT PLATFORM
📱 Could AI glasses replace your smartphone?
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The Rundown: Meta’s unexpected success with Ray-Ban Meta glasses revealed that buyers are already embracing smart glasses as a computing platform, accelerating the timeline for AI-powered eyewear to challenge and potentially replace smartphones.
Cheung: How far-off are we from these glasses being adequate that you just’d quit your phone?
Zuckerberg: “Take into consideration your principal computing device. Phones are my principal device, but I didn’t do away with my computer; I just use it less. Even at my desk, if I need to do something, I take out my phone. That is what is going on to occur here.
Zuckerberg added: Our phones will stay in our pockets more. I do not have a look at my phone to see the time anymore, just tap the glasses. I do not take out my phone for messages. With the viewfinder, I do know exactly what I’m capturing.
Cheung: How much of the metaverse vision remains to be alive in these products?
Zuckerberg: We’re getting closer to it. The Orion prototype has a wider field of view for holograms. This product’s monocular, so it is not putting 3D objects on the planet yet. However the vision is all of the immersive software we have now for VR, we would like running on glasses too.
Why it matters: Meta’s glasses strategy is working backwards from the longer term — starting with easy, useful features before full AR holograms. With original Ray-Ban Metas already dominating stores and Display glasses introducing neural input, Meta is slowly creating the behavioral shift where phones stay in pockets more.
PERFORMANCE TRACKING
🏃 Oakley Meta Vanguards bring AI coaching to athletes
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The Rundown: Meta’s recent Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses integrate directly with Garmin and Strava to deliver real-time AI responses through audio — tracking heart rate, pace, and performance metrics while athletes train.
Cheung: How did you construct these with athletes in mind?
Zuckerberg: Lots of people on the team are pretty intense athletes. I’ve fried multiple pairs of Ray-Bans taking them browsing… So we made these water-resistant. The additional sound is admittedly helpful once you’re cycling at 30 miles an hour within the wind. The opposite day I used to be taking a call on a jet ski and will hear perfectly over the engine.
Cheung: Why did you think that it was vital to design glasses for super different lifestyles? How much broader do you expect to go?
Zuckerberg: People have different styles. This is different from a phone where everyone accepts having the identical thing with a distinct color case. Glasses are a part of our identity. Some people prefer thinner frames, some thicker.
Zuckerberg added: There are somewhere between 1 to 2B individuals who have glasses for vision correction today. Inside 5 to 7 years, is there any world where those aren’t all replaced with smart glasses? It’s like when the iPhone got here out and everybody had flip phones — only a matter of time.
Cheung: The Garmin integration means AI can see your heart rate, pace, location, all hands-free while training. How long before it’s giving everyone real-time coaching?
Zuckerberg: It may well try this a bit now. If you would like to ask what your heart rate or pace is, it could actually answer. Once I’m running for performance, I do not really need to confer with something. That is why we built the LED, an easy visual indicator of whether you are in your pace goal or heart rate goal.
Why it matters: With the Oakley Meta Vanguards, athletes get a glimpse of augmented performance — with AI features enhancing the wearer’s flow without interrupting it. With light touches like Garmin/Strava integrations and visual LED cues, the tech disappears into the experience to supply value without demanding attention.
HUMAN AUGMENTATION
🤖 Preserving humanity within the age of superintelligence
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The Rundown: As Meta builds toward AI glasses that capture every little thing we see, hear, and even think via neural signals, fundamental questions emerge about preserving humanity — especially as devices change into universal for the next-gen growing up with ambient AI.
Cheung: You are constructing superintelligence while raising three kids. What conversations are you having with them concerning the world they’re growing up in?
Zuckerberg: In our family, we construct quite a lot of robots. My daughters are really into 3D printing. There’s not much kids can do with developing AI at their age, but they’ll make stuff. We’re designing our own robots, 3D printing the shell, using Raspberry Pi or Jetson to run language models.
Zuckerberg added: I mostly attempt to teach our youngsters to be good people. Being caring and type is admittedly vital. But intellectually, I consider in a depth-first approach. You learn lots by constructing a robot, decomposing problems, debugging things. You learn by doing.
Zuckerberg added: Sometimes we construct robots, sometimes we watch K-pop, you gotta rejoice.
Cheung: Once we do achieve superintelligence, these AI glasses will know every little thing we see, hear, even our muscle impulses. What human abilities should we fight to preserve, and which of them should we just let go?
Zuckerberg: I’m undecided they are going to retain every little thing… Picking out the salient bits and giving people control is significant. But to me, creativity may be very vital, having a way of what you would like to make on the planet. A part of the job of a creator is to be a master of the tools available to them. AI systems don’t have any impulse to create — they sit there waiting for directions.
Zuckerberg added: The human piece goes to be: what do we would like to do to make the world higher? A few of that will likely be personal creative manifestation, but we probably underplay caring about other people, caring for people, spreading kindness. That stuff is admittedly vital too.
Why it matters: In a world where humans are increasingly embedding AI in our lives, Zuckerberg sees a future where humanity is not competing with AI, but co-evolving with it. As we delegate more cognitive tasks, uniquely human traits like creativity, empathy, and the drive to enhance the world change into not obsolete, but essential.
GO DEEPER
INTERVIEW
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and The Rundown CEO Rowan Cheung sat down for an exclusive conversation for deeper insights on:
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How the Neural Band will personalize to you over time
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The timeline for glasses replacing smartphones
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Constructing “personal superintelligence” while raising kids
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Why Zuck rebuilt Meta’s AI lab inside 15 feet of his desk
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